Supply Chain Management. Case Study on Amazon (PDF)

Case Study from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1, University of Applied Sciences Hof, course: Masters in Operational Excellence, language: English, abstract: This term paper is written to identify and understand the application of SCM principles, Wholeness system thinking, and principles in the supply chain of Amazon. We study how Amazon's supply chain works in detail explaining the critical parts that make the supply chain perform as a whole. Analysis of the SCM of the amazon system is done to understand the important interaction of different parts.

We choose to study the SCM operations of Amazon because Amazon is the world leader in logistics with operations around the world and to become aware of the different elements, interconnections, and purpose of a successful company like Amazon and relate it to its current perspectives.

The study is based on the definitions of the Lean principles, six principles of SCM, Whole system thinking, and their inter-relation. We approach the study by defining all the concepts and then explaining the Amazon company's SCM strategy and inter-relations of various parts. The Objective of the term paper is to study how the theoretical concepts are implemented practically by Amazon.